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Roundtable between United Nations Special Rapporteurs, civil society organizations and local governments

Connecting across Habitat Rights and the Right to the City: the continuation of a dialogue between United Nations Special Rapporteurs, civil society organizations and local and regional governments.

15h-17h CET (check your local time here)

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that it is not possible to separate the protection of health from access to food, education, housing, care for the environment, protection to women and others, making evident the universality and interdependence of rights. The current context has also opened up new spaces for collaboration between actors working on different levels and areas to respond together to joint challenges. 

Given this interdependence , the Global Platform for the Right to the City, Habitat International Coalition and United Cities and Local Governments have come together to facilitate spaces for structural dialogue between United Nations Special Rapporteurs, civil society organizations and local and regional governments. Building on previous collaborations that the three co-organizers and their membership have carried out with different mandate holders, the initiative aims to strengthen and support their work, by identifying possible areas and channels of cooperation and collaboration with civil society organizations and local governments in relation to Habitat Rights and the Right to the City.

Following the first roundtable in December 2020, this second roundtable discussion with United Nations Special Rapporteur mandate holders includes the following participants: 

Proposed agenda:

  • 15h: Welcome and  introduction;
  • 15:05h: First round of discussion – Paths for collaboration: intersections between priorities for mandates, civil society organizations and local and regional governments
  • 16h: Second round of discussion – How to work together? Mechanisms to strengthen the engagement with civil society and local governments in the defense of Habitat Rights and the Right to the City
  • 16:55h: Final remarks

Translation will be provided in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.

For more info: see the inputs from the previous discussion

Video of the session available here.

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